Scholten R J P M, Clarke M, Hetherington J
The Dutch Cochrane Centre, J1B-108, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Eur J Clin Nutr. 2005 Aug;59 Suppl 1:S147-9; discussion S195-6. doi: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602188.
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, not-for-profit organisation that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health-care interventions. Cochrane systematic reviews are prepared according to predefined, explicit methodology, and published in The Cochrane Library. The abstracts and plain English summaries of the reviews are freely available on the Internet. All reviews are prepared and maintained under the editorial control of 50 Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups that focus on (groups of) health problems. The work of Collaborative Review Groups is supported, among others, by people working in Cochrane Fields. Cochrane Fields focus on dimensions of health care other than health problems. To date, the issue of nutrition has not been addressed sufficiently in The Cochrane Collaboration. Nutrition issues are very important for day-to-day health care and the initiatives to establish a new Cochrane Diet and Nutrition (Sub)Field will help to promote the preparation of systematic reviews of nutritional interventions by the variety of Collaborative Review Groups to whom such interventions are relevant. Many issues regarding nutritional interventions, however, are complex, and methodological challenges will have to be overcome. A Cochrane Diet and Nutrition (Sub)Field with experts on nutritional research can help fill this gap and make those reviews more possible.
考科蓝协作网是一个国际性的非营利组织，其宗旨是通过编制、维护和推广卫生保健干预措施效果的系统评价，帮助人们在充分知情的情况下就卫生保健做出决策。考科蓝系统评价依据预先确定的明确方法编制，并发表在《考科蓝图书馆》上。这些评价的摘要和通俗易懂的英文总结可在互联网上免费获取。所有评价都在50个考科蓝协作评价小组的编辑指导下编制和维护，这些小组专注于各类健康问题。协作评价小组的工作得到了考科蓝领域工作人员等的支持。考科蓝领域关注的是除健康问题之外的卫生保健层面。迄今为止，考科蓝协作网对营养问题的关注还不够充分。营养问题对日常卫生保健非常重要，设立新的考科蓝饮食与营养（子）领域的举措将有助于推动各个相关协作评价小组编制营养干预措施的系统评价。然而，许多与营养干预措施有关的问题很复杂，必须克服方法上的挑战。一个由营养研究专家组成的考科蓝饮食与营养（子）领域有助于填补这一空白，使这些评价更有可能实现。
